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When I Wrote ThisDisturbing News Stories
2007-06-19
There are two stories in the news today, each one equally disturbing.
The first is the pregant woman from Ohio who has disappeared. There was a pool of blood in the home, cell phone and wallet missing and her toddler son claiming "Mommy was crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy's in the rug."
Today, a couple 45 miles away came home to find a newborn with the umbilical cord still attached, on the doorstep. They promptly took the baby to the hospital where they performed a DNA test.
Thomas Maurer, sheriff in neighboring Wayne County, said a doctor determined that the baby was less than 24 hours old, and that officials are using "every caution we can" to eliminate the possibility that the baby is related to the missing woman, Jessie Davis.
I don't know, but I would want to know that if something did happen to Jessie Davis, at least her child lived.
The other story I find distressing is the couple in Bejing China. This is taken from the Associated Press.
Doctors in southern China were planning to perform surgery on a 1-year-old boy whose parents took him to a hospital because he had been unusually fussy and learned he had six sewing needles in his body, newspapers reported Monday.
The child's parents, migrant workers from southwest China, said they had no idea how the needles ended up in their son, nicknamed Xiao Yu.
The Beijing Youth Daily ran a color photo of an X-ray showing five needles throughout the boy's torso. The Beijing Morning Post printed close-ups of the X-ray, plus another that showed a needle that had apparently been pushed through the top of the child's head.
The photographs showed the needles completely embedded inside the boy.
"We have to perform the surgery as soon as possible, but we cannot promise that we can remove all the needles," the doctor, Gu Yong, was quoted as saying.
The parents said they took Xiao Yu to a hospital on June 2 after he cried for three or four nights in a row and ate less than usual.
An X-ray taken there revealed two needles inside the boy's chest. He was sent for surgery at another hospital, where a second X-ray revealed four more needles - two in his scrotum, one in his head and another in his abdomen.
The parents, who work at a bag factory in southern China's Guangzhou city, said no strangers have come into contact with the boy.
Ok, so lets play Nancy Drew for one moment. Let's eliminate the parents, if they are both working...hmmmm..who cares for the baby during the day? Another family member? So lets be thankful a STRANGER isn't sticking sewing needles in your baby, but it's someone you know.
What we do to one another is just reprehensible as a species. I'm betting in all the time Dr. Jane Goodall spent with the Apes, not one came home from a hard day in the jungle, wondering who stuck bamboo shoots into baby ape. It just doesn't happen in the wild. Let's all pay a little more attention to what is going on around us, outside of our little world. We don't all have to be hero's but we should look out for one another.
Mary Mary Quite Contrary (2007-06-22)
Just heard on the news today, that after the dna testing, the baby found on the doorstep was not related to Jessie Davis.
Doe (2007-06-21)
Sickening. :(
surrogate (2007-06-21)
Spooky. Man... what people do.
LadyG (2007-06-19)
In Bejing they believe in acupunture, probably an older member of the family that thought they were doing something to help instead of harm. As for as the baby on the doorstep that is all so sad.
Mary Mary Quite Contrary (2007-06-19)
Oh Wow! That is just nuts!
Really freaky what the child was saying about his Mom in the first news story!
- And at first I was thinking the little boy in the second story might have stuck himself with a needle or swallowed one accidentally, maybe picking one up that was lying around the house or something...but he certainly wouldn't have stuck a needle all the way in himself, let alone as decribed here in the news story! Some people are sickos that's for sure!
I sure hope they find out more on both of these stories!
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